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Jean Baudrillard's "The System of Objects"

Theory & Philosophy

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The System of Objects by Bojira

In Bojirot's system of objects, all objects obey the same functional imperative. But this formal democratization of cultural status conceals other inequalities that affect the very reality of the object. As far as this point and consumption are concerned, everything is in movement, yet nothing really changes. Our ability to consume objects that a degree greater than that people have been afforded does not mark any progression in the domain of economics. Rather, it is our perpetual insertion into the system of objects that keeps the wheels of advanced capital spinning.

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